sossos
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šu-ši /šūš/, “a unit of sixty”).
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Noun edit
sossos (plural sossoi)
- (history, Babylon) A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
- February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110.
- 2001, Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham, Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt., University of Michigan Press:
- (astronomy, archaic, rare) One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.